The Dawson journal., 1887-03-03
Locals.

tie than to cultivating his mind.
One live, active, enthusiastic
man in a community is worth
forty million gas bugs, who are
always going to do something but
never do it.
If every man in Dawson does
not carry several Thousand dol
lars life insurance, it is not the
fault Of Joe Laing. who has work
ed the town for all it is worth.
There have been 267 mules
sold in Dawson this season. 1t
will take $4,000, or eight hun
dred bales of cotton, to, pay for
them next fall.
The Best North Carolina
Sweet Mash Corn Whiskies at
f24.tf M. G. MINIS.
The Governor has ordered an
election next Saturday for Cap
tain of the Dawson Guarc.s to fill
the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of Capt. j. A. Laing. At
the same time a Junior Second
Lieutenant will be elected.
--Tobe Thornton has sold a
pair of mules to Smith & Gordon,
of Macon, and they were shipped
Monday evening. They were his
pair of large dray m lies, the fin
est in Southwest Georgia.
Mrs. Mollie Sharp and her
two daughters, Miss Annie Sharp
and Mrs. Roberta Little, all of
Tatnall county, are visiting rela-
tives in the city, the family Of
Mr.. j. A. Kenidy.
His Honor, the Mayor, is not
having much business now. Daw-
son has but few law breakers, and
the treasury is not being replen-
ished by many fines and forfeit
ureS.
Our entire stock Of Clothing
is new, and will be sold GU small
profit.
f24-tf HoRsLEY & K1LLEN.
If Brentwood and Dawson
to grow for the next few
years as they have in the past two,
the time is not far distant when
they will be united as one big
city. -Bronwood Reporter. Jessoi
The committee appointed to
solicit contributions for the fire.
mems supper on the night of the
18th inst, held a meeting Monday
afternoon. They are going ahead
with it, and propose to make it a
success, too.
The first issue of t! o Bron-
wood Reporter, by Jack Powell,
has appeared. 1t is neat, bright
and newsy, just such a paper as
we thought Jack would get out.
We welcome it as co-laborer,
and wish it every success.
Col. j. G. Parks is no longer
the Dawson correspondent to the
Constitution. Col. Parks has re-
ceived letter from the Constitu-
ton expressing regret in surren-
dering his valuable services" Col.
Parks "as a careful and prompt
correspondent
Behold the world rests"
Headache and neuralgia have
been cured by Salvation Oil, the
great and infdllible remedy.
Price % cents.
-Bconwood seems to hold a de-
cided attraction for certain soci-
ETY. young man of Dawson. We
admire his taste. Come again;
but it is useless for us to extend
him the invitation, for he will be-
here anyway next Sunday.-Re.
porter.
The patent man was on our
streets few days ago. His OBJ
iect was to sell the county right
for the same. Our people have
been taken in SO often by patents,
that it is q hard matter to get any
one to attempt to do anything
with them in this county.
1t is asserted that Booth and
Salvini keep their voices clear by
the use of DIR. Balls Cough Syr-
up.
Mother Earth has been thor
oughly soaked by the gently fall
ing rain, and thereby farm work
in Terrell has been considerably
retarded. 1t may be we'll that
there has been an enforced post
ponement Of corn planting, as
some Of the weather-wise predict
more severe cold weather before
spring greens are ripe.
The following, FROM the Eu-
faula Times, will be of interest to
Mr.. W. K. Pilsbury's Dawson
friends. Mr.. Pilsbury is the So
licitor of the Times: "Mr. Simp.
r. Foy, of this city, perpetuated
the strong feeling of friendship
existing between him and the
solicitor of this paper, by naming
a tree, which he planted in the
yard of his Brick store house On
Arbor Day, with the name of the
solicitor of the Times"
Many imitntOrs, but no equal
has DIR. Sare's Cattarrh Remedy,